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• General view of part of the South Water street Illinois Central Railroad freight terminal, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)

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  • 6 comments
  • 130 favorites
  • 70,454 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• General view of part of the South Water Street freight depot of the Illinois Central Railroad, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)

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  • 0 comments
  • 34 favorites
  • 42,232 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
  • Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34781, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, advertise, city, skyscrapers, blueribbonbeer, chicago, southwaterstreetfreightdepot, railroad, pabst, pbr, pabstblueribbon, carbidecarbonbuilding, historicalphoto, history, trains, train, rail, tracks, illinois, midwest, chicagoillinois, buildings, vintage, old, jack, delano, jackdelano, cookcounty, greatnorthern, rockisland
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• Lower N.Y. from Coenties Slip (LOC)

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  • 3 comments
  • 107 favorites
  • 36,923 views
  • Date taken: 1910
  • Date uploaded: 2008-11-14
  • Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpggbain12320, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, newyork, manhattan, skyline, newyorkcity, buildings, wallstreet, broadway, skyscrapers, 14wallstreet, bankerstrustcompanybuilding, trowbridgelivingston, manhattanmunicipalbuilding, municipalbuilding, mckimmeadandwhite, mckimmeadwhite, singerbuilding, ernestflagg, woolworthbuilding, cassgilbert, coentiesslip, bryantbuilding, sinclairbuilding, sinclairoilbuilding, henryivescobb, ny, nyc, downtownmanhattan, financialdistrict, beaverbuilding, clintonandrussell, clintonrussell, wallstreetexchangebuilding, georgebpost, cottonexchangebuilding, newyorkworldbuilding, worldbuilding, pulitzerbuilding, nationalcitybankbuilding, firstnationalcitybankbuilding, merchantsexchangebuilding, isiahrogers, tontinehouse, libertytower, parkrowbuilding, rhhenderson, badosa:obra=n024, crevilles, cityscape, urban, concretejungle, grey, gray, blackandwhite, smoke, furnacesmoke, citylandscape, architecture
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• Freight cars at the South Water Street Illinois Central Railroad terminal, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)

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  • 1 comment
  • 30 favorites
  • 33,199 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• New York Skyline - June 1913 (LOC)

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  • 1 comment
  • 32 favorites
  • 32,684 views
  • Date taken: 1913
  • Date uploaded: 2009-04-13
  • Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpggbain13181, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, newyork, skyline, june1913, 1913, woolworthbuilding, crrofnj, hudsonterminal, singerbuilding, baltimoreandohioterminal, hudsonriver, skyscrapers, wallstreet, manhattan, lowermanhattan, newyorkcity, newyorkharbor
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• Do you recognize this New York thoroughfare? No! Then bring a prophetic eye to bear on it (LOC)

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  • 2 comments
  • 31 favorites
  • 30,295 views
  • Date taken: 1909-12-12 00:00:00
  • Date uploaded: 2009-06-08
  • Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httpchroniclingamericalocgovlccnsn8303021419091212ed1seq17, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, newyorktribune, newspaper, cover, illustration, drawing, art, future, futurism, futuristic, skyscraper, highrise, urban, subway, pennsylvaniastation, pennstation, 7thavenue, urbanplanning, 7thave, seventhavenue, manhattan, newyorkcity, mckimmeadandwhite, beauxarts, pennsylvaniarailroad, skyscrapers, newyork, mckimmeadwhite
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• Woolworth Bldg. (LOC)

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  • 12 comments
  • 28 favorites
  • 17,651 views
  • Date taken: 1912
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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• New York will soon have the highest structure but one ever raised by man. (LOC)

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  • 1 comment
  • 16 favorites
  • 15,985 views
  • Date taken: 1907-01-20 00:00:00
  • Date uploaded: 2009-08-07
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• How thick is Gotham? One answer is: ten hundred and ninety feet (LOC)

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  • 7 comments
  • 27 favorites
  • 14,275 views
  • Date taken: 1908-11-29 00:00:00
  • Date uploaded: 2009-07-10
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• Municipal Bldg. - New York (LOC)

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  • 4 comments
  • 23 favorites
  • 13,161 views
  • Date taken: 1913
  • Date uploaded: 2009-04-13
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• Birds eye view of N.Y.C. from roof of Cons. Gas Co's Bldg. (LOC)

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  • 5 comments
  • 11 favorites
  • 11,836 views
  • Date taken: 1913
  • Date uploaded: 2009-08-21
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